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Opera
In a recent article that briefly examines some of the lasting impact that Beethoven has had on weste...
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Justin Rito
A new production with libretto and music by Tim Benjamin, Madame X premiered in London on Tuesday, A...
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Angelina Panozzo
Opera’s tough. You can’t just stand there and sing. The minimum requirement for an opera singer is t...
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Paul Kilbey
On July 20, 2014, the Glimmerglass Festival presented the premiere of a new version of composer Tobi...
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David Dies
In a pre-concert chat at the Theater an der Wien on Sunday, June 15, composer Georg Friedrich Haas s...
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Caitlin Smith
Following his 2013 opera Emily, composer Tim Benjamin is back this August with Madame X, an operatic...
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Angelina Panozzo
There is a quaintness to Mauricio Kagel’s Mare Nostrum (1975, rev. 1997). Its heavy-handed metaphors...
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Caitlin Smith
In his 1964 essay for the Cambridge Opera Handbooks’ Igor Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress, the compo...
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Caitlin Smith
In 2010, after winning the IAWM Genre Prize for her multimedia work Creation, Sabrina Peña Young imm...
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Thea Derks
The San Francisco Opera’s world premiere production of Mark Adamo’s The Gospel Of Mary Magdalene, wh...
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Kelsey Walsh
If television’s IFC produced operas in addition to off-kilter films and quirky sitcoms, composer Ja...
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Daniel Kushner
In 1904 the Swiss adventurer Isabelle Eberhardt (born 1877) drowned in a flash flood in the Sahara,...
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Thea Derks
This is the first post of Technology Editor Dana Wen's two-part coverage of the seventh annual Music...
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Dana Wen
Now in its seventh year, the 2013 Music & Brain Symposium begins on April 12 at Stanford Univers...
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Dana Wen
Few would deny that the latest internet sensation is goats—screaming goats—and it didn’t take...
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Thomas Deneuville
This season the New York City Opera presents 4 new productions: two at BAM, and two at New York City...
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Thomas Deneuville
Described by The New Yorker as “an arrestingly gifted young American composer,” and by the New York...
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Christian Gentry
Experiments in Opera has commissioned 10 composers to present new operas that last no more than 10 m...
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Daniel Kushner
Here's a story I hope is true. Years ago, Laurie Anderson contacted Thomas Pynchon via snail mail to...
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Sam Zelitch
5 questions to Monica Harte (soprano, co-founder and general director of Remarkable Theater Brigade)
On Friday, October 19, the Remarkable Theater Brigade is back at Carnegie Hall (Zankel) for another...
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Thomas Deneuville
The Knights The Knights is an orchestra of friends from a broad spectrum of the New York music worl...
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Sam Reising
Nixon in China. John Adams' first opera. San Francisco Opera’s series of performances (which began J...
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Kelsey Walsh
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